Prof. Dr. Michael I. Ojovan is internationally ranked among top experts in radioactive waste (№4) and glass transition (№39). He is an Associate Reader in Materials Science and Waste Immobilisation at the School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK. Previously, he also served as a Visiting Professor at the Imperial College
London in 2011–2024. Before joining The University of Sheffield in 2002, he spent more than 20 years at The Moscow Scientific and Industrial Association “Radon”, the leading radioactive waste research institution in Russia. He is a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and a Technical Expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He received his M.Sc. in Solid-State Physics from the Moscow Engineering Physical Institute Michael in 1979, a D.Phil. from the National Research Nuclear University on Interaction of Radiation with Small Particles in 1982, and a D.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry from Moscow
Scientific Research Institute of Physical Chemistry on the surface effects in nuclear waste forms in 1994. His research interests mainly include amorphous oxide materials, glass-liquid transition, viscosity, poly-phase oxide materials, glasses and crystals for nuclear waste immobilization, aqueous corrosion, long-term performance and radiation-induced effects in glasses, nuclear waste
processing, immobilization technologies, metastable and strongly excited systems, and Rydberg matter.
Dr. Anh Khoa Augustin Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Engineering Physics from the Université de Liège, Belgium, in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and his Ph.D. from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2017. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2017 to 2021 and then at the National Institute for Materials Science from 2021 to 2024. He joined The University of Tokyo in April 2024. Dr. Lu’s research interests are the structure-property relationships in materials. Using atomistic simulation methods such as molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations combined with machine learning, the structure and properties of new materials can be evaluated and tailored to develop new applications. The materials he currently studies are silica, metallic glasses, and two-dimensional materials.
